The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-01

montgomery, Ala, was totally destroyed
by fire on the 29th inst. The loss is csti-
mated at about 100000; insurance on the
property amount to $4,000 or $50, 600.
-Hon. Don NJ. Dickinson, of Michigan,
has been appointed by President Cleve-
land to take the place Of Postmaster-Gen-
eral. 1t is evident now that Villas will
get Lamar's place and Lamar will be pro-
NOTED. n+.. 49,
Next week we will give our readers
an extract from a speech made by c.. W.:
Macune, President of the National Farm
ers' Alliance, before. the Inter-States Con-
vention Of Farmers in Atlanta, and which
is worthy the careful perusal of every
man in the South. ,
farmers desiring an organizer of the
Alliance to visit their community, will
make application at once to L. L. Polk,
Secretary Of the State Alliance, Raleigh,
n. G. These applications will be placed
on file and will be accommodated at the
earliest pFdCCCaDlc JlIne.
The Rev. Mr.. Pearson, the evangelist,
is preaching with wonderful power and
success to eager and anxious crowds
which throng the large building Of the
First Baptist Church in this city. Gen
orally the house is crowded long before
the hour for services to begin.
In order that there may be no more
trouble with the Swananoa tunnel in the
future, the authorities of the Western
North Carolina Railroad have decided to
arch the tunnel with brick and sement and
then it will be as a hole through solid rock,
so says the Charlotte Chronicle.
Thirteen organizing officers of the
Farmers Alliance lave been appointed
and commissioned, and we expect the
campaign to open in earnest. President
Alexander calls for fifty good men, well
qualified for the work, to take the field
as organizers. See his notice-"Alliance
organizers"
-Fifty-seven years ago we had %
miles of railway in this country. Agood
roadster could have trotted the distance
in two hours. Now we have enough
railway to grit the globe over eight times,
and it would require a man six months,
travelling 80 miles every hour, day and
night, to pass over it.
We learn from the Southermer that a
meeting of farmers in Edgecombe re-
solved to build a cotton seed oil mill, and
that $12, 5000 of the stock was promptly
taken. The mill will be built. So says
the Souherner. Things are beginning to
move A patent roller Touring mill in
Mecklenburg and a cotton seed oil mill in
Edgecombe, and all by the farmers!
Rev. w. C. Norman preached his
farewell sermon to the congregation of
the Edenton Street Methodist Church
last Sunday, and it was a fine sermon and
well delivered. The congregation loses
an excellent pastor, but according to the
law Of the Methodist Church, the pastor
cannot remain but four years in the same
field. Wherever he is sent, he will be
remembered by the Raleigh people.
One Of the blacklist and most sad
crimes that was ever witnessed occurred
heal Mount Airy on the 18th inst. Bob
Leak Tilley was in company with Lou
Hanes, travelling through the mountains,
and it appears that Bob shot Lou in the
head and killed her and then threw her
body among the branches of a fallen tree
and set fire to it. Bob has not yet been
captured, but there is a $1,000 reward for
him.
Now we've got ye! Listen! Mr.
J.. B. Strain, of Swift creek, has a "vol-
unteer' turnip in his cotton field which
measures II II inches in diameter and
81 IL inches in circumference. 1t is of
the Norfolk or White Globe variety, and
has reached it's present mammoth size
without the aid of extra manuring or
extra cultivation. Take that chip off
your shoulder and buckle the belt on j.
B. Strain, of Wake.
There is great dissatisfaction among
the people of this county at the Hardness
of the authorities in replacing the bridges
recently washed away. Two separate
meetings have been called for the magis-
trates to take action. but there was no